Hearts and Minds – Criterion Collection
Posted by Babu Rao on 08 Mar 2010 | Tagged as: Documentaries
Often described as one of the most powerful and disturbing documentary movies ever made, this film by Peter Davis was a landmark documentary which confronted the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, watching this movie is a deeply emotional experience which shouldn’t be missed.
Is your government using fear to control the population? Alex Jones looks at government sponsored terrorism from the past and speculates that many of the “acts of terror” carried out in recent years were actually carried out by the very people we voted into power.
Noam Chomsky is that dry, factual, intellectual that you probably fell asleep listening to in your college classes.However, if you even begin to listen to what he is saying, you’ll suddenly become angry, scared or saddened and be drawn to listen further.Unless you’re thoroughly familiar with US foreign actions for the last 20 years you’ll wonder how he can possibly be telling the truth half the time.However with his constant encouragement to check sources and research exactly what he’s saying he’d have to be absolutely crazy to be lying about what he’s saying. 
Taxi to the Dark Side is a superb Academy Award-nominated documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.It focuses on a young Afghan taxi driver, Dilawar, an innocent bystander who was picked up by American troops, tortured, and died from his severe injuries at an American detention center.The film uses never-before-seen footage, interviews with leading politicians and activists and comments from soldiers who were in Afghanistan.
EARTHLINGS is an award-winning documentary film about the suffering of animals for food, fashion, pets, entertainment and medical research. Considered the most persuasive documentary ever made, EARTHLINGS is nicknamed “the Vegan maker” for its sensitive footage shot at animal shelters, pet stores, puppy mills, factory farms, slaughterhouses, the leather and fur trades, sporting events, circuses and research labs.
Zeitgeist has been #1 on the Google Video charts for months and you will see why once you watch it.Prepare yourself.It is powerful.Its a movie about Jesus, 9/11 and the Federal Reserve Bank all rolled into one, and depending on who you talk to its is either the absolute truth or the worst documentary ever made. Watch it and decide for yourself!
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